Have you ever wondered what Tudor diplomatic tales lie hidden in the archives?

Read on to find out!

(1/4) 📣 Now launching CfP for SCS 2026 conference, “Storytelling at Princely Courts”,
📍 Wrocław, Poland (27-29 August 2026)
👑 Explores the multifaceted role of narratives and stories at medieval & early modern princely courts
🗓 Proposal deadline: 31.01.2026
👉 Limited bursaries available.

Reminder: This Monday (10th) at 4:30pm, @susannah-lw.bsky.social will be presenting her research into the global and natural material culture of the 17C English Queens. Memorial Room, Jesus College. All are welcome!

📣 SCS annual conference - “Reconsidering Courtly Environments”, in Prague on 20-21 Nov w/ historickyustav.bsky.social akademievedcr.bsky.social Examines medieval & early modern European courts, natural environments & landscapes. Feat keynote by Luc Duerloo & papers on gardens, hunting & landscapes!

📣 New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, 📚 launched by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Series feat books exploring any & all aspects of global courts 👑 (all variations). CfP now open! Info & CfP: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...

In our first session of the year we will hear from Elizabeth Norton, speaking about Jane Seymour. Monday at 4:30, Memorial Room, Jesus College. All are welcome.

This Thursday 16 Oct 18:00 CET/17:00 BST join us for our next VSS session - “ ‘I Had an Honourable Place in the Traine’: Dutch Diplomacy Surrounding the Funeral of Elizabeth I” presented by Elizabeth Hines and Julie van den Hout!

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It’s that time of year again! Here is the term card for the upcoming talks. As always, everyone is welcome! Fortnightly, 4:30pm in the Memorial Room, @jesusoxford.bsky.social

Tudor fans I will be presenting a paper "Friend, Foe, or Stepping Stone? Cardinal Wolsey and Stephen Gardiner" for this study day at Oxford University Lifelong Learning!

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The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!

Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
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SCS seminar. A panel discussion on "New Directions in Royal Histories". Lauren Shaw (Celtic Harmony / University of Roehampton) on Tudor ancestral legacies

TOMORROW SCS launches our 2025/26 VSS programme with the talk "Building the Presence of the Prince" by José Eloy Hortal Muñoz and Merlijn Hurx!

This session will explore the significance of royal buildings in the consolidation of a sovereign's power

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SCS is excited to launch our Virtual Scholarship Series programme for 2025/26! Come along to hear about royal buildings, patronage, gardens, and more!

Here is a summary of our programme for 2025; stay tuned for 2026! See link below for dates and times - courtstudies.org/events/virtu...

👑📢 And check out our 2026 programme too! Come along to hear speakers talk about the truly global nature of court studies! See our website for more details on timings 👉 courtstudies.org/events/virtu...

Richard’s sister Margaret was residing in Mechelen in the Burgundian Netherlands where she turned her court into an anti-Tudor hub (which often clashed with the policy of her step-daughter Mary and step-grandson Philip)

1525 saw the Battle of Pavia, the height of the German Peasant's War, and the founding of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's Oxford College, today called Christ Church.

To commemorate this, until 22 Dec they are holding an exhibition "Imagining Wolsey: The Invention of an English Cardinal".

Workshop - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany are seeking proposals on the topic 'Power Couples? Collaborations and work and home, c. 1750-1914'.

Interested? Please email sven.jaros@geschichte.uni-hall.de and z.thomas@bham.ac.uk with a 250 word proposal by 1st September 2025

Attention courtiers! Our blog 'The Court Observer' is currently accepting submissions! Open to researchers of any career stage.

Interested? Please see courtstudies.org/about/scs-bl... for more information!

CFP 'The Court escapes from Town (II) Arts, Diplomacy and Politics in the Countryside (Europe, 15th-17th Centuries)', Domaine et Musée Royal de Mariemont, Belgium.

Contributions welcome in French, English and Spanish. 300 word abstract required by 5th July.

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